Realised this morning that I hadn’t checked the 300 exposures project for a while. Some of the pictures are amazing. They really know how to frame a view well!

I’ve sorted out my RSS feed now so that the title is displayed correctly, so if you have this page shown via RSS you may want to change the URL. Incidentally, how many of you use RSS to read this page?

Marketing to morons have a great idea – send spam mail only to those people who are stupid enough to respond to previous adverts – like ” get a gallon of goop out of your colon!”
Pst – can you tell I’ve got an rss aggregator working????

Slashdot reports that the SysAdmin guy could be redundant if the software gets its way. However, *someone* has to install the software in the first place and patch and test it so I think my jobs safe just yet….AND most of my customers are not running Sun, but Microsoft software *evil grin*

Rumours abound that the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy is to be made a film – cant wait!

Got a letter today saying that my NTL (formerly Cable & Wireless 132) phone service had been moved across to NPower. I checked the rates of calls on NPower vs what I thought were good value Onetel and were suprised to see Npower cheaper apart from the calls to the USA. So guess which one’s I’ll be using from now on! (and I won’t even talk about BT’s prices!)

Downloaded Newzcrawler last night and had a look at the XML output from the blog. Two things I noticed – it doesn’t have a title, and relative links don’t work – they need the full path as the downloaded news gets stored on the c drive of the local computer and therefore the relative links then become links on the c drive 🙁 Still apart from that (the first isn’t newzcrawlers fault anyway) its a good app.

I guess I need to tidy up my start menu. I installed another app this evening on the 98 computer and went to find it on the start bar. however, I have the start menu cascading across the screen, 4 levels wide but there are too many apps to fit that the new ones do not appear on the menu! It *really* is time that the software is tidied up. BUT a lot could be said for making the installation of start menu’s in setup programs a lot better.Most of them do not allow you to nest your applications inside existing groups. Sure you can move them afterwards, but then the uninstall programs do not find the moved icons and you end up with a situation like mine!

This is NOT what I call customer service. Streets Online are not going to sell books anymore – fair enough – but to cancel orders that are outstanding seems a bit draconian and certainly not a customer satisfaction move – “Should you have any outstanding orders for books on your account, we will not be able to fulfil them. These orders will be cancelled and you will, of course, not be charged for these books. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause ”

I checked my XP installation last night and was safe (which I should be as I had installed service pack1). However, if you only have a dial up modem and can’t wait for the service pack to come out, then Steve Gibson has a small 30k utility that will replace the affected file with the fixed version.